Most Popular Bible Verses in Matthew 23
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Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which tithe mint, anise, and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law undone: judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her chicks under her wings? But ye would not.
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.
Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outwards: but are within full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.
And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.
But ye shall not suffer yourselves to be called Rabbi, for one is your master, that is, to wit, Christ, and all ye are brethren.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first, that the inside of the cup and the platter, that the outside of them may also be clean.
So are ye, for outward ye appear righteous unto men, when within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous
"Wherefore, Behold, I send unto you prophets, wise men, and scribes. And of them: some shall ye kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
So then: ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them, which killed the prophets.
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which compass sea and land, to bring one into your belief: and when he is brought, ye make him twofold more the child of hell, than ye yourselves are.
All their works they do, for to be seen of men. They set abroad their phylacteries, and make large borders on their garments,
Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which make clean the outer side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are full of bribery and excess.
For I say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth, till that ye say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
ye serpents and generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell?
and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.'
Yea, and they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders: but they themselves will not heave at them with one of their fingers.
All therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but after their works do not: for they say, and do not.
Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, for ye devour widows' houses: and that, under a colour of praying long prayers, wherefore ye shall receive greater damnation.
Verily I say unto you, all these things shall light upon this generation.
But whosoever exalteth himself, shall be brought low. And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.
Woe be unto you, blind guides, for ye which say, 'Whosoever swear by the temple, it is nothing: but whosoever swear by the gold of the temple, he offendeth.'
that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth: from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar:
Ye fools and blind: whether is greater; the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
and love to sit uppermost at feasts, and to have the chief seats in the synagogues,
And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the seat of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Ye fools and blind: whether is greater; the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering?
And, 'Whosoever sweareth by the altar it is nothing: but whosoever sweareth by the offering that lieth on the altar offendeth.'
And whosoever sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
Whosoever therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all that thereon is.